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EU-Turkey refugee plan: One for one and none for all
Agoraefficiently, there was a danger that it would be seen as encouraging refugees to seek out smugglers...-engineered scheme heartily, it will be a nightmare. Greece is the only one of those participating... raised serious doubts about the safety and legality of sending back asylum seekers en masse to Turkey
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Mortgage loans a key piece of NPL reduction puzzle
EconomyBankingThe persisting issue of non-performing loans (NPLs) was one of the key items discussed last week... at the start of September, the European Central Bank’s Governing Council member Benoit Coeure said that one..., mortgage lending has continued to be the one sector where bad loans are not falling at a fast enough pace
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First round of local elections leave Greek politics finely balanced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s incumbent Vassilis Michaloliakos was beaten into second place by independent Yiannis Moralis... is making the transformation from a party of opposition to one of power. New Democracy will instead... incumbent Giorgos Kaminis all the way. According to Interior Ministry projections Kaminis was expected
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New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsobservers of the banking system as a deft bit of politics. On the one hand it is noted that the latest raft... severely brain-damaged after being beaten and sexually assaulted by a Pakistani migrant on the island... politician met with EU interior ministers on Tuesday in Copenhagen, where he pressed for faster
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Newsletter 213 -07/01/2019
to waste any time after the July 7 elections if New Democracy wins an outright majority, as one more.... According to the timeline set out in the piece, Mitsotakis envisages being sworn in as prime minister... and then re-open on August 19. It is likely that the new economic development law will be one
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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agoraagreement work in practice? Based on the evidence available for the past year, one should be cautious about.... As has been argued by some in the past (including the author of this piece), Greece and Germany both.... But his diplomatic success in Brussels underscores that your one-time political adversary may indeed
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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicsand opposition are preparing for two key set-piece events in the coming days, which they hope will revive... one of the largest ever recorded in Europe. Meanwhile, an analysis of data from the EU’s Copernicus... of the wildfires is just one of the black marks against New Democracy’s record since it was comfortably re
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Refugee housing deadline puts spotlight back on migration policy
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor promoting a key piece of asylum legislation which exempts spending on migration from the usual... costed at 4.5 million euros was awarded to a private contractor without being put to tender
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Coalition ready to pass first legislation as agenda for lenders' talks grows
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the SYRIZA-led government that the first piece of legislation it passes should be one aimed at helping... programme, especially as this was one of the areas of policy making where previous governments were.... Although Tsipras and Varoufakis have played down any danger from liquidity challenges, it is clear
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Athens braces for Erdogan bargaining at NATO summit
PoliticsForeign Policyto the Aegean islands. The same sources, however, say that the Greek side will not be the one to trigger... was spying for Athens. On Saturday, Turkish authorities reportedly arrested a man named Mohamed Amar
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